Crescent moon may refer to:

Lunar phases

  • Fingernail moon, a lunar phase waxing until 7 days after or waning since 7 days before the new moon
  • Hilal (crescent moon), an Arabic term for the very slight crescent moon that is first visible after a new moon

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Crescent Moon (comics), a fictional DC comics character
  • Crescent Moon (manga), the English title of the shōjo manga Mikan no Tsuki
  • "Crescent Moon" (song), Mika Nakashima's 2nd single
  • "Crescent Moon" (The Avengers), an episode of the television series The Avengers
  • Crescent Moon Darnel, nicknamed Cress, a character in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
  • The Crescent Moon, a 1913 collection of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore
  • The crescent moon featured in the logo for the English dub of Sailor Moon.

Other uses

  • Anjaneyasana, or crescent moon, an asana (body position) in yoga
  • Crescent Moon Society, a Chinese former literary society

See also

  • Crescent (disambiguation)
  • Demilune (disambiguation)
  • Half Moon (disambiguation)
  • Star and crescent, an iconographic symbol sometimes associated with Islam